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Good agreements make good friends
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Good agreements make good friends
Conventional wisdom suggests that clear agreements need to be made prior to any collaborative effort in order to avoid potential frustrations for the participants during or at the end of a joint project. In a mathematical and numerical investigation The Anh Han and Tom Lenaerts (both from VUB and ULB, Belgium), Luís Moniz Pereira (Departamento de Informática FCT UNL, Portugal) and Francisco C. Santos (INESC-ID, Portugal), show that this behavior may actually have been shaped by natural selection. Moreover, their analysis shows that making prior agreements on the consequences of not honoring a deal provide a more effective road to cooperation than simply punishing bad behavior after the facts, even when there is a cost associated to setting up the agreements. Potential applicatons iinclude swarm robotics and autonomic decision making systems.
This work was reported in Nature’s open access journal Scientific Reports.
T. A. Han, L. M. Pereira, F. C. Santos, T. Lenaerts, Good Agreements Make Good Friends, Nature Scientific Reports, Sci. Rep. 3, 2695; DOI:10.1038/srep02695, 2013.
Thursday, 19th of September 2013
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